Hi, Thanks for you reply it is very helpful. The way you describe with sending off your pass certificate is probably more effort than it’s worth since the pass certificate, although proof that you passed, is not equivalent to your licence and it’s not an option on the D1 form so I don’t think it’s possible anyway. Mine took about 2 1/2 weeks to come back to me with the new photograph, but I was also removing my middle name so it’ll probably take less time for just changing a photo. Send off the completed form and your full licence. Just find the correct one and put it on the envelope.

The postcodes are on the back of the form so you don’t need to search for it. Get a large envelope since you don’t want to fold your photograph and affix the correct postcode for photograph changes. There is a box where they say they can just obtain your passport photograph if you give them your passport number, if I recall correctly. Follow the steps on the form, filling in ALL the sections they required, it’s fairly simple plus instruction are written on it, and attach a passport style photo to the sticky box on the form. You can get this from the post office but I just ordered it for free online from the gov.uk website since I was in no rush.

To change the photograph on your licence, I did the following: After passing my test, I handed in my licence as normal to the examiner and he sent it off to be swapped for a full licence which took about a week to come in the post.

Hello, I had to do this in October because my provisional licence had a photo from when I was 13 years old which didn’t look anything like me. I was just wondering how do I do this and what I will need to send off with the form, I know I will have to send off my driving pass certificate but would I need to send off my passport (it’s one of the new ones so am I able just to put the passport number down and the new photo should show up online for them?) I’m finding it hard to find anything online about how to change the photos and if I’ll need to send a separate photo of me with the pass certificate and my passport. I have asked my driving instructor if the test examiners can change that for me or if I should have to do it myself, he said I would have to go to a post office to fill out a form and send it off to the DVLA for them process it so they could send the new license (with new photo). Hi, I have my driving test in around 2 weeks and I don’t want to keep my current photo that’s on my provisional as it’s an old photo of me when I was younger.

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